Author
Eugène Sue is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1843–1849). 13 distinct works are named, most often in Franz Liszt and Eugene Sue., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Eugène Sue’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Also an attempt to paint her in Eugene Sue's Martin the Valet de Chambre which would interest you to read I think. I read it, translated into Italian, when I was getting well.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Rome. 8 March. 1849
'I read it, translated into Italian, when I was getting well' is an explicit first-person reading statement.
“Then followed a history of the French Marine under Louis XIV, a sketch of the naval history of all nations, then he undertook historical novels (“Latreaumont,” “Jean Cavalier,” “Letorieres, the Commander of Malta,”) then moral tales, such as Arthur and some dramas;—finally the novels of society, in which he is now engaged.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“This wise and dignified proceeding reminds one of a charming expression of what is best in French character, as described by Rigolette, in the Mysteries of Paris, of the household of Pere Cretu and Ramnonette.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
“Just compare his "Wandering Jew" with that of Beranger. The latter is as diamond compared with charcoal.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p166
“In this connection I must mention Eugene Sue, the French novelist, several of whose works have been lately transplanted among us...”
The same sentence also names Mathilde: Mémoires d'une jeune femme [Mathilde: Memoirs of a Young Woman]. Counted as one engagement.
“the truly noble and immortal character of the "hump-backed Sempstress" in the "Wandering Jew”
“Eugene Sue's description of a wicked, but able woman of the practical sort [...] "Mother Saint Perpetua, the superior of the convent, was a tall woman, of about forty years...”
Inferred The character 'Mother Saint Perpetua' is from Eugene Sue's Les Mystères de Paris.
Appendix D: Description of 'Mother Saint Perpetua' explicitly attributed to Eugene Sue; likely from Les Mystères de Paris.
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
“Have you entertained your leisure hours with the Mysteries of Paris, or the pathetic story of Violet Woodville?”
Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Asylum for Discharged Female Convicts." New-York Daily Tribune, 19 June 1845. · 19 June 1845
“rests also the sympathy which Charles Dickens, by such books as Nicholas Nickleby, which Eugene Sue’s else so formless and confused works have found in Germany.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Correspondence of the Schnellpost." New-York Daily Tribune, 27 January 1845. · 27 January 1845
“Sue’s “Wandering Jew” finds a rapid sale, though pursued by anathemas from many quarters. The sympathy of the public increases, day by day, and Sue is again one of the lions of Paris.”
“Sue caught at the thought, began to write; thus arose the “Pirate Kernock,” “The Salamander,” and others.”
“Then followed a history of the French Marine under Louis XIV, a sketch of the naval history of all nations, then he undertook historical novels (“Latreaumont,” “Jean Cavalier,” “Letorieres, the Commander of Malta,”) then moral tales, such as Arthur and some dramas;—finally the novels of society, in which he is now engaged.”
“then he undertook historical novels (“Latreaumont,” “Jean Cavalier,” “Letorieres, the Commander of Malta,”) then moral tales, such as Arthur and some dramas”
“then moral tales, such as Arthur and some dramas;—finally the novels of society, in which he is now engaged.”
“The ‘Constitutionnel’ makes known that it will publish all ten volumes of ‘The Wandering Jew’ in one, when finished; and has also concluded with Sue a contract for another novel, in seven volumes, which will appear by the end of 1845, under the title of ‘The Seven Deadly Sins.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Franz Liszt and Eugene Sue." New-York Daily Tribune, 11 January 1845.
“Eugene Sue at St. Bris, in the valley of Montmerency, contriving the loves of Prince Djalma and Mlle. de Cardaville”
“Were it not too late, we should address similar entreaties to Sue; surely he has let his black-frocks seize upon prey enough”
Fuller, Margaret. "Items of Foreign Gossip." New-York Daily Tribune, 24 September 1845.
“This thirteenth number of the “Wandering Jew,” just published by Winchester, has delivered us from our anxieties as to the objects of Jesuit persecution”
“EUGENE SUE is a writer of far inferior powers, on the whole, to Sand, though he possesses some brilliant talents that she wants.”
“These latter works are the "Mysteries of Paris," "Matilda," and the "Wandering Jew," which is now in course of publication.”
Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems; Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 February 1845.
“This is one of the books which Sue wrote while yet in the dark mood, while, seeing the triumphs of vice and the defeats of virtue, he doubted whether there were really any God in the world, or any excellence in human nature.”
“Such books are not entitled to, and will not obtain, the popularity of “The Mysteries of Paris” and “The Wandering Jew,” for our souls not only shrink from the facts, but deny the inferences.”
Fuller, Margaret. "The Hotel Lambert, or The Engraver’s Daughter . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 3 September 1845.
“Dickens has fallen and Sue is falling, for few men can sell themselves by inches without losing a cubit from their stature.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Thomas Hood." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 July 1845. · 18 July 1845
“Sue is a congenial activity with D'Israeli, but with clearer notions of what he wants. His 'De Rohan' is a poor book, though it contains some things excellent.”
Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Story Books for the Hot Weather." New-York Daily Tribune, 20 June 1845. · 20 June 1845
“still such a position would be inappropriate indeed to the eager venders of “The Wandering Jew.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Publishers and Authors." New-York Daily Tribune, 3 February 1846. · 3 February 1846